Carnot Posey

Carnot Posey (5 August 1818-13 November 1863) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Carnot Posey was born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi in 1818 to a family of planters, and he established a law practice in Woodville after graduating from the University of Virginia. When the Mexican-American War broke out, he enlisted in the US Army, and he was wounded at the Battle of Buena Vista in 1847. He was district attorney for southern Mississippi under President James Buchanan, and he recruited a militia company for the Confederate States Army when the American Civil War broke out in 1861. On 4 June 1861, he became the colonel of the 16th Mississippi, and his regiment was sent to the Eastern Theater in August 1861 after engaging in a skirmish near Corinth, and he was wounded at Cross Keys in 1862, fighting in many of the Army of Northern Virginia's engagements. On 1 November 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and he was wounded during an assault on Cemetery Ridge on 2 July 1862. On 14 October 1863, he was wounded in the left thigh at Bristoe Station, and he died of infected wounds on 13 November 1863.